#teaching struggles

[roachthefish-alt]

"I don't understand why 6-7 is so funny," said I, writing a document for university. "Why these particular numbers?! They are so frequently put together, it's so common, how can it be funny?"

Then, I wrote: "something something after the students have finished, change the order of the flashcards", and yelled "OH MY GOD THE ORDER FROM DARKHARVEST00???"

[notetaeker]

March 25, 2023 - Saturday | Ramadan Challenge 🌙 3/30

Love saturdays love the pleasant surprise of not setting an alarm and still waking up at a good time, love not having work or internship, love gloomy rainy days 🕯

📸 occupational hazard, propagating plants (an attempt) + my recent cloud art is now my wallpaper ☁️

What type of worship comes the easiest to you? I think I’d say dhikr. Both in the literal sense like tasbih/tahmid/takbir + morning duas etc but also dhikr in the sense of the meaning of the word like the remembrance of Allah. Maybe cuz I like drawing or because I’m a science nerd but I’m always notice and am awed by the beauty and intricacies of the creation of Allah. Like that verse from Surah Ale-Imran is so important to me: ‘Verily in the alternation of the day and night there are signs for people of understanding’ I’d like to think I’m one of those people 🤧

[teachers-gonna-teach]

Yes, I’m a teacher even though I’m not teaching right now

Me at my job working with kids

Kid- “So you’re a teacher?”

Me: “Yup”

Kid- “What school do you teach at?”

Me: “Well... I’m not teaching right now, I’m hoping to get a job in the fall”

Kid looks at me blankly: “So you’re not a teacher?”

Me: “No, I am a teacher. I’m a certified teacher

Kid still looking confused: “Oh, okay.

[iamnarvi]

A 7the grader asked me if I was a virgin today.

It's been one of those days.

[xiaobanh]

When I decided to become a teacher I didn’t realize it also meant I’d be spending more than 15 minutes of my life looking for a gif of terry crews that properly relates to proteins without being too distracting

[adancergirl]

The hardest part of an undiagnosed chronic illness is the unknown. Will I get better? The test results are normal, but I still feel crappy. Maybe I'm just imagining this? No. Allison you aren't imagining it. Keep on fighting! Dealing with a cruddy family member suggestion: you will get a full time job. It's NOT an option! Outer Me: I will do my best. Inner Me: why are you so ignorant?! I want a good situation. I don't want a cruddy situation just so I can have a full-time job. Cruddy situations: increased depression!! I barely made it out of my cruddy situations. You wouldn't know that because you don't want to hear negative things. #Educateyourself I'm a fighter and nobody will control me. I have options.

[tenuredphdstudent]

When Students Keep Emailing About Things Covered Explicitly on the Syllabus

[notetaeker]

I knew teaching at a bigger school would be difficult but I didn't know I would be so affected by the kids...

I treat the 8th graders like high schoolers (I always have), like a LOT of them are already super tall and already looking the part. A few days ago when the teacher in charge of lunch detention came by, I gave the name of the noisiest kid. This kid, still being his noisy self, gets up and says 'oh its not fair' etc, but when he looks at me, he looks like he's abt to cry 🤡 and I immediately am like 'Or you can promise me not to disrupt class tomorrow and I won't send you' which he obviously accepts

Meanwhile, I'm also spending my days waiting for this one kid to smile at me again at some point or else I can't let go of my guilt of sending him to the principals office ;_; i feel like I betrayed him and he'll never smile at me again 😢 When he had come back from the office his face was red and his eyes were all watery and he was trying his best not to cry and like... I feel so gutted man to see that especially because they don't look like babies anymore.

I know they've just become teenagers and every emotion is so big and everything feels like the end of the world and I cannot bear to see these kids about to cry, especially not because of something I did. But at the same time they're the ones refusing to sit down and can't hear anything I'm trying to teach because the rest of the class is being so loud, and distracting. I can't just do nothing about that! Or else how will they pass the standardized exam at the end of the year? Sigh.